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Dragon's Musings
04 August 2004
On the Soap Box again
I know it'a bit late, but it's not often that I have the time to write things down when they're topical. I suppose it is. Once again on NPR this morning, I heard a piece that's headlined "Bush Courts Catholics with Social Agenda," which was about Bush speaking before the Knights of Columbus, supposedly "As President."
I dodesn't matter what he was speaking as, Current President or Cantidate for President, the article brought up an issue for me.
All other things aside, why should America support an amendment to the Constitution which legislates discrimination. Bush's proposed amendment would specifically deny a group of people (voters) one of those inalienable human rights from the Declaration of Independence. What ever happened to the Persuit of Happiness.
This is what I don't get about the platform against gays. Supposedly, they contribute to the degeneration of society, what with their freewheeling lifestyles of mulitple partners. They're dangerous (and contageous! eek! Does that make me a lesbian because I lived with one?). They undermine society and Good Family Values™.
So they want to settle down in monogamous relationships, pledging their lives to each others, promising to love, honor, and cherish each other for as long as they both shall live.
Wait. That's bad too!
Huh?
What boat did I miss. It's against Good Family Values™ for gays to be free-wheeling and single. It's against Good Family Values™ for them to be in a stable loving relationship. The only conclusion that can be drawn from this dichotomous situation that it would be against Good Family Values™ for them to exist at all.
That, my friends is Hate.
That is discrimination and prejudice.
That is not what America is about.
Please, you don't have to agree with people. You just have to have enough respect to realize that legislating discrimination is a Bad Thing. This country has come a long way since the Constitution was written. Freedoms have been established, not taken away. Look what happened the last time the govenment ever attempted to legislate morality through the Constitution. Prohibition, anyone? That didn't last long.
You can't legislate morality. You can't legislate who people love. You can't legislate that. You shouldn't legislate discrimination.
/soap box
Liz the Mischievous renovated @ 12:05